Park Slope Pigeon-Killing Eight Year Old

spoil kids. care taker funny word for lazy ass parents.

That's disgusting. No 8 year old should hit any living being with a stick, that boy is old enough to know better. Either the kid is a psychopath or his parents aren't doing any actual parenting. I never hurt an animal when I was a kid, normal children don't do that. No one I know or have ever known has done anything like that as a kid. His parents need to wake up and try to fix the mess they've created. And the cops should have done something to make that kid realize his behavior was wrong even though his parents didn't. At this rate they'll be dealing with him in a few years anyway.

See that's the difference right there. It's one thing to have to kill animals for food, I'm a vegetarian and I realize that living where I live gives me that luxury. That kid did it for fun and that is seriously f*ucked up. armchair_warrior, I didn't mean that comment to encompass the whole world. It was only meant for kids living in countries where they don't have to kill for their dinner. Hope you didn't take it the wrong way. #-o

i agree with ya caseopele .

Actually, the kid was 8 years old according to the Gowanus Lounge story.

Wow, big suprise there, a kid with absentee yuppie parents being raised by a nanny growing up messed up in the head. There's a new one for you.

At the same time don't quite see what the point was of calling the cops. :?:

BrookSignal wrote: Sounds fishy to me. I don't think I could kill a pigeon with a stick if I tried.

the story smacks of urban legend, i don't put much stock in the accuracy or truth of any blog reporting

this is the part that blows the story "The cops were called and arrived over 10 min..."

in the park?

me thinks all ye been wumped

When I lived on 5th Ave I was right across the street from P.S. 51. One day while walking my dogs I saw some 8-10 year olds throwing rocks at a squirrel. The squirrel was clinging to the wire mesh on one of the school's windows. I was sick that day and my head was a bit fuzzy so I wasn't able to think about what I was saying. I told them something like, "Hey! You do not throw f*cking rocks at squirrels! Not cool, guys." I don't know whether it was the big dogs, the blue hair and tattoos, or the fact that an adult swore at them. But they stopped and a few other kids chimed in telling them it wasn't cool. Keep in mind this was during the kids lunch break, I wasn't aware they were allowed to run wild completely unsupervised while at school.

Yeah, that was me. I'll take a pigeon over a future sociopath any day.

i believe jeffrey dahmer began his "career" by killing small animals.

Karl the Druid wrote: i saw a homeless woman in central park eating a pigeon

ruined my day

Now this smacks of "Urban legend."

veets wrote: [quote=Karl the Druid]i saw a homeless woman in central park eating a pigeon

ruined my day

Now this smacks of "Urban legend."

In france they call it "squab", and I too am offended that it affordable for the homeless.

Subject: parents?do they exist when kids are around wildlife...?

I was in Prospect Park over this weekend looking out for two 'dumped' ducks that are not supposed to be living in the 'wild.' What I witnessed of kids and the lack of any sense of knowing how to live among wildlife ... but more importantly, the parents lacking any sense of the idea of TALKING to to their children about how to LIVE and TREAT wildlife ... was shocking. i am still in shock over it. I saw kids riding their bikes recklessly into where the pigeons and canada geese and ducks were by the water. I saw kids throwing chunks of rolls in order to hit the ducks. I saw little kids run after a bunch of ducks across the lawn and one kept falling(the duck, not the kid). *I* was the one who had to point out to them that they should not be doing this. WHAT is wrong with the parents? It's a park. Yeah, I get that maybe they want them to be able to 'run free' but ... what a great opportunity to teach the children .... hey that bird is a baby and we need to keep some distance... hey those pigeons and ducks are just trying to survive. let's not run into them... hey that one doesn't seem to be doing so well, let's leave it alone. hey, maybe we should feed them bird seed or popcorn versus junk food... etc. etc.

so to see this story about the eight year old killing the pigeon, which I don't have the heart to read right now, sort of doesn't surprise me.

I don't know if it's parents being permissive or thinking that kids can do anything to wildlife but it's really messed up and horrifying. Spend about five hours over a few days by the lake at Prospect Park and you'll see it, full force.

You'd never see kids running after a scared dog and getting away with it. Throwing rocks at dogs... why is it okay to do this to squirrels or ducks or pigeons...?

While I agree that the kid's caretaker should have set him straight about the proper way to treat animals, I think it's a *huge* leap to assume that every kid who hurts or even kills an animal is a sociopath. Cruelty to animals used to be common - people paid to see dogfights, cockfights, and bearbaiting. They weren't murderers or mentally ill - they were normal people, and they found that fun. I think that kind of cruelty is appalling, and I'm glad our society doesn't condone it anymore, but let's not assume that because a boy hasn't really learned that yet, he's sure to be the next Jeffrey Dahmer.